Wills Eye Conference

Albert Y. Wu, MD, PhD, FACS

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Stanford Byers Eye Institute

Dr. Albert Y. Wu is a board-certified ophthalmologist and a fellowship-trained specialist in oculoplastic and orbital surgery, and faculty in the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University. 

Dr. Wu completed his ASOPRS oculoplastics fellowship at the University of Toronto and served two years at its Chief Fellow. After finishing fellowship, Dr. Wu was faculty at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary / Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he obtained support from the National Eye Institute to develop stem cell therapies to treat corneal blindness and regenerate the surface of the eye.

He currently leads the Stanford Ophthalmic Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory, which focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of ocular and orbital diseases. His research focuses on using induced pluripotent and adult stem cells to regenerate the ocular surface. He has pioneered the use of corneal organoids to create transplantable ocular tissue and to model human disease and development. Additionally, his lab has developed novel techniques to reverse the hallmarks of aging in human eye cells. Transcriptomics are used to profile normal physiology, aging, progression from early to late disease and to identify possible ocular/orbital inflammatory and cancer stem cells as targets for precision therapeutics.